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1--Well, does stuff that sticks to an ordinary pan stick to your mouth when you eat it? *shrugs* just a matter of what it's made of.
2--*shrugs* nice warm water at night....a pool not too far from my home.....*grins at Jeff*
3--It's a method of teaching "new math"
4--who actually *received* a UK passport? *L*
5--"for thine own health eat fruit"
6--*RaE* That's a drink? from what i've read in the magazine articles they put on bathroom stalls in our dorms, it's something WAY different...
7--Polly, Lester, and Lee's "sure suit" company
8--one in every string colony.
9--a 'mac'? as in 'macintosh'? as in, ryhmes with 'osh kosh b'gosh'? no way, hosea!
10--*doh, my first answer was already taken :P* *thinks up another* '...there were four star trek series. the first one was TOO DULL. the second one was TOO HEAVY. the third one was JUST RIGHT. ...the fourth one was too lousy to even consider.
*L* not meant to offend...just my opinion. heh.
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1)*read the article Sol provides a link to*
2)Last time I took a swim was 7 years ago. It's been such a long time I don't even know the past tense. Swom? Swam? Swimmed (I know it's not swimmed people, I was just kidding)
3)We don't have that problem here. Buns come per 10, hot dogs per 10 or value packs of 20. At least we call them hot dogs but..
4)?? I wouldn't even want one. It's a bit of a weird country. Brown beer and stuff.
5)hair (if you're lucky/young enough, but not too young)
6)I could tell you but I'd get myself banned.
7)American-Chinese buisiness woman Esther Po Lee.
8)No idea. But we have an elastic band ball somewhere in a drawer downstairs and it's about three inches in diameter. Do I qualify?
9)Not me for sure.
10)..people realised how hackneyed this opening sentence had become and became more creative.
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With "read" in answer #1 I mean I read (past tense) not read (imperative). Who said English was an efficient language? Por dios!
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1. If nothing sticks to Teflon, how does Teflon stick to the pan?
Teflon is a myth perpetuated by the DuPont corporation in the certain knowledge that non-stick aluminum doesn't sound "sexy" enough, but some mysterious non-stick substance with a scientific-sounding name will move tons of product regardless of whether it exists or not.
2. Skinnydipping, anyone?
You don't want to see some of the people here naked. Trust me. I know these things.
3. Why do Hotdogs come in packages of 10 when hotdog BUNS come in packages of 8?
The Gnomes of Zurich decreed it be thus as a concession to the baked goods industry. In compensation, the meat-packing industry is allowed to use any substance whatsoever in the construction of these pseudo-sausages. That is one of the reasons Jimmy Hoffa is still missing.
4. So how many people won UK passports?
No. The more correct question is: "How many people wanted UK passports. I would, if someone offered to give me a guided tour of all the pubs within a 2,000 mile radius of London (distance chosen on the basis that there may be such things in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and possibly even the European Continent, and I don't want to miss a one).
5. "This, above all: _________________"
If you forget to put the seat down, you're twenty-seven kinds of oaf, but if you don't forget, nobody gives you credit for remembering. Therefore, leave the seat up once in a while as a reminder that we're still waiting for one, solitary "thank you".
6. What is in the mixed drink "Orgasm"?
I discovered 2 versions. ORGASM (1st) 1 oz Kahlua \ 1 oz Baileys Irish Cream \ 1 oz Amaretto fill cream ice \ rocks or up (add 2 scoops ice cream or mix)
ORGASM (2nd) 1 oz Amaretto \ 1 oz Baileys Irish Cream \ 1 oz Kahlua no mix ice \ rocks or up
Gimme some!
7. Who invented the Polyester Leisure Suits?
The same folks who were responsible for the "White-Buck-Shoes-and-Belt-Conspiracy". They have since been dealt with. Permanently. Let that be a lesson to us all.
8. How many "World's Largest Ball of Strings" are there, and where are they located?
If this category includes belly-button lint, I know of several.
9. Who here owns a mac? *grrr*
What? The truck or the computer?
10. "Once upon a time, __________________"
Papa-bear came home by himself. But, this being a G-rated forum I suppose I'll have to keep the rest of the story secret.
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OK, the equation I posted was a tricky one, and when I did it in my head, I must have been in "The Zone", or something. No matter!!
Krenim: You're probably going to get medievil on my ass with a temporal inversion, but what you did was incorrect. You cannot split up an equation like that (i.e. a non-homogeneous eqn.) the way you did. Reason is that you're looking for y, and you integrated it [yx->(yx^2)/2) as if it were a constant, which it is not.
Here's the way I did it:
dy/dx = y-x. Multiply across by exp(-x). Get:
[exp(-x)]dy/dx -y[exp(-x)] = -x[exp(-x)]
Now use the Product Rule (for differentiation) backwards on the Left Hand Side(LHS):
d(y[exp(-x)])/dx = -x[exp(-x)] (OK so far?) or d(y[exp(-x)]) = (-x[exp(-x)])dx.
Integrating both sides, we get y*exp(-x) on the LHS, and after Integrating by Parts x*exp(-x) + exp(-x) on the RHS.
NOW, if you divide across by exp(-x), you will be left with y =x + 1, which if checked satisfies the original equation (d(x+1)/dx =1 y(=x+1)-x =1)
That's the way I did it. It's a bit of a hard one alright. Sorry about that.
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*gulp*
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